Here’s a look at my nearly finished roof! As you can also see, the chimney will be covered in blue stones to match the exterior paint. Once I add grout it will look better. This part of the project has taken as long as the rest of it combined!
Miniature Schnauzer & Miniature Roof Makeover. Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
Recent updates to the mini house include some great new eBay furniture purchases and steady process on the shingles. All I can say is, this house has a lot of roof.
Here are a few looks at some inexpensive eBay finds I picked up recently.
Trying out some cute eBay chairs with a rug I already had.
I’m having a hard time finding the right dining room table. This eBay find is cute, and it was a great deal, but I’m not sure if it’s going to make the cut.
Trying out furniture and accessories in the partially finished kitchen. The adorable bowls were eBay finds, all the way from Thailand. Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
I still have plenty of photos from the Chicago show last month I haven’t had time to post. Here are some of PRD Miniatures. Also, here’s a link to the PRD Miniatures story.
Artist Paris poses with his mom.
PRD Miniatures at the Chicago Miniature Show, April 2015. Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
A simple, inexpensive way to create a unique end table for your mini home is to pair a garage sale figurine with a mirror.
Here are my garage sale panda and a bag of mirrors from my local craft store:
Moments later, and with the help of a dab of glue, we have this:
Finished product:
Once the glue dried, I paired my table with different furniture and placed it in different rooms, seeing where it worked best.
It must be the animal lover in me, but now I feel kind of sorry for this panda. Like maybe I could have left it alone and not turned it into a table.
Well, I guess it is what it is isn’t.
Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
Here are some more photos from the Chicago Miniature show I attended last weekend. I’m a huge fan of Atomic Miniature artist Michael Yurkovic’s work.
All photos link to the Atomic Miniature Facebook page.
Michael Yurkovic of Atomic Miniature. Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
It’s time for shingles to get glued into place and the world’s ugliest mini chimney to get a facelift. Stay tuned!
Chimney before. Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
Debating between small teal shells to match the exterior paint color, or tumbled river rocks…
Which did I choose? I’ll tell you soon!
In my real (human scale) home, I have a collection of cutting boards, so naturally my mini house needed one as well. At the miniature show in Chicago, I found three new mini cutting boards, all from seller Dragonfly International. I already have a couple other mini cutting boards, so now my collection is complete. Also, check out the adorable pots and yardstick, also from Dragonfly International!
Regular cutting boards and mini cutting boards. Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
I was at my local craft store the other day, taking a look around since I was running early for an appointment. I came across a glass ornament (I have no idea what it was doing out in April — maybe it was meant to be used for a little spring/Easter scene?) that looked like a perfect mid century modern bubble chair. I decided I’d hang it from the ceiling in the corner of the living room. Ten minutes later, wondering down an aisle I’d never before set foot in, I discovered an assortment of plate and cup holders. One of the cup holders was a perfect match for my ornament/chair, turning it into an actual free-standing bubble chair. Here they are:
Cup holder + glass ornament = perfect 1:12 scale mid century bubble chair! Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
My new bubble chair works great with my other living room furniture.
Bubble chair with a mini newspaper rack and a side table that’s actually a container of lip balm.
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I’ve always loved dollhouses. Last summer (July, I think) my friend and her husband spotted a mid century dollhouse at a flea market and sent me a text, asking if they should buy it for me. It was just $35, appeared to be pretty solid looking, and had an awesome, unique split level layout.
“Sure!” I said.
A few hours later they were delivering it to me. Here’s how it looked on the day I got it:
Day 1 of my mini house. Photo by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
Since then I’ve been hard at work creating furniture and accessories from scratch, tweaking store-bought furniture and accessories, and making over everything inside. Here are a few of the accessories and pieces of furniture I created from things like coasters, handles, and yarn that I wove on a potholder loom:
Mini blinds made from a coaster.
Tiny love seat made from two wooden handles, a mid century cloth napkin, and some small wooden balls. The tiny newspaper rests in a metal doodad from Habitat for Humanity Re-Store.
A small rug/blanket woven on a potholder loom. Photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
It took me months just to get all the wallpaper and flooring removed!
Here’s a look at some of the rooms in progress:
A look at my mini kitchen and dining area, in progress.
Living room in progress.
And now here’s a look at some of the rooms today:
Trying out furniture and decor in the living room.
This kitchen is coming along! All photos by Holly Tierney-Bedord. All rights reserved.
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